Shaq AttackI'm sure Shaquille O'Neal (The Shaq Factor, June 17) is a great guy. It's just that he is as bad for basketball as Godzilla was for the Big Apple. The referees consistently allow him to...

LETTERS

FEBRUARY 17, 1969

Any dink can run a marathon. Oprah has. Al Gore has. I, for pity's sake, have run two marathons. But Jerry Dunn is a real runner. In the calendar year of 1993 he ran 104 marathons. Seven years...

Baseball chemistry is a complex science: As some recent lapses of team spirit show, a good dugout dustup or clubhouse clash can be a catalyst for success

When Nike and Adidas compete, low numbers are not the problem

PREGNANT ATHLETES WHO STAY IN THE GAME

42,457Persons in attendance at Wimbledon on June 26, a record for the 116-year history of the tournament.

The USOC's former drug czar says he's ready to name names

There was Jordan driving the lane, then coolly sinking a jumper while hanging in midair. But this was neither Chicago Stadium nor the MCI Center. This was the Wooddale High gymnasium in Memphis on...

PeevedRangers first baseman Rafael Palmeiro, the Viagra pitchman, after an organist at Pittsburgh's PNC Park played Pop Goes the Weasel and the theme from The Woody Woodpecker Show when Palmeiro...

John Henry Williams, the Kid's kid, enters rookie ball at 33

An avid golfer (with a six handicap) and a rabid sports fan, Samuel L. Jackson will host "The ESPY Awards" on July 10.

Unlike fellow blonde thespian Cameron Diaz, who played the owner of the fictional Miami Sharks in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, Gwyneth Paltrow hasn't done a pigskin flick yet, but don't think...

There are two sides to Chuck Butorajac, an aficionado of the atlatl, an Aztec device used for throwing a lightweight spear. Butorajac, who has sported half a beard for seven years, competed in the...

Pete Rose has been elected to the Summit County (Ohio) Boxing Hall of Fame.

A.C. GREENThirty-eight-year-old former Lakers star known for his advocacy of premarital abstinence, on his honeymoon following his April wedding to former Houston Rockets Power Dancer Veronique...

Finally back from a devastating knee injury, Indiana's Tamika Catchings is tearing up the WNBA

For complete coverage of baseball's midseason classic, including more analysis from Tom Verducci and Stephen Cannella, go to cnnsi.com/baseball.

Gianni Clerici and Rino Tommasi, Italy's bawdy TV duo, make John McEnroe look like limp linguini

Thanks to the author's children, a classic look at baseball's front-office follies has gotten new life

JULY 5-JULY 11

•Draft the Mikes•NBC's Irish Blues•World Cup Woes

Ziggy Goryn, WAYNE, N.J.VolleyballZiggy, a senior at Wayne Hills High, set the state record for kills in a career (1,164) and was named first-team all-state for the second consecutive year. He...

All signs point to Tiger's achieving what Arnie and Jack couldn't: victory in the third leg of the Grand Slam

With four par-4s measuring less than 400 yards and three eminently reachable par-5s, Muirfield could play right into Tiger Woods's hands. But he'll have to stay out of bunkers like the one...

A reborn Ronaldo awoke from his four-year nightmare and led Brazil to its fifth World Cup title with a performance for the ages

Depreciating BondsGiants first baseman J.T. Snow was able to get home safely after a double by Marvin Benard on June 26, but teammate Barry Bonds, who was right behind him, was erased by Padres...

While Brazil met Germany for The first time in World Cup history on Sunday, the U.S. can only hope it doesn't run into the Germans for the third straight World Cup in 2006. Germany will be hosting...

The Cavaliers needed to make a big, daring move on draft day, and G.M. Jim Paxson had the perfect plan. Well, almost perfect

No power, no personality, yet with no peer, the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki may be the greatest player to come out of Japan and the worst thing to happen to Japanese baseball

Japan has already lost a slew of its best pitchers, and these position players may follow

National League teams are scoring nearly half a run less per game than in 2001. Here's a scout's-eye view of six budding righthanders who are helping to hold batters at bay

Who would have thought that Derek Lowe, nearly banned in Boston last year as a closer, would turn starter and ride his scintillating sinker into the hearts of Red Sox Nation?

In the game of prognostication you use every available tool. We've gazed into our Magic 8 Ball to see how the remainder of the season will play out

Bud Selig has put his legacy on the line by tightening the screws on the players' union. If there's a strike this season, he'll be the one who takes the fall

Tennis

The Party's OverThe greatest generation of U.S. male players showed its age at Wimbledon

Olivier Rochus defies the theory that the future of men's tennis belongs to Godzillas

The World At His FeetAfter a sparkling World Cup, U.S. defender Tony Sanneh is suddenly a wanted man

It was a simple, straightforward question for Chicago Cubs bomber Sammy Sosa.

Len Mattiace won for the second time this year using the same balanced, on-plane swing that he had as a kid learning to play the game at my club

Len Mattiace made up seven strokes on third-round leader Glen Hnatiuk with a final-round 64 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic, the largest come-from-behind victory on the Tour this year....

Balance is the core element of an effective swing, in part because good balance is necessary to help keep the club on plane. Swing plane is the angle of the shaft at address (1). It can vary from...

Tom Watson took time out from his preparations for the Senior Open in Owings Mills, Md., to throw out the first pitch when the Orioles hosted the Yankees on June 25, firing a decent heater down...

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Don Pooley held off Tom Watson to win a U.S. Senior Open that no one will soon forget

An epic U.S. Open could be in the offing as Sorenstam, Webb and Pak take center stage at Prairie Dunes

Nancy Lopez needs to rethink her plans to work a full schedule as a television announcer next year. The good manners and folksy demeanor that so endear her to fans make Lopez dullsville in the...